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Fast Hours

Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn

Hosted by: Drew Brucker x Rory Flynn AI is rewriting what creators can do. Fast Hours keeps you ahead by pressure-testing AI creative tools and workflows in public. Every week, Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn pull apart the newest tools, test the techniques, and show you what"s actually worth your time. From Midjourney to Seedance to Claude to whatever ships tomorrow.The things that worked, the ones that didn"t, and the parts nobody posts about. Made for designers, marketers, and creative leaders

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01:09:36

Midjourney V8.1 Review & Reactions + Wen Edit Model?

Fast Hours ·

2026/04/19

Midjourney finally dropped v8.1, so Drew and Rory did what any responsible adults would do: generated way too many images, argued with style codes, stress-tested text, and immediately started asking whether the edit model is the part that actually matters.In episode 66 of Midjourney Fast Hours, the boys dig into why Midjourney v8.1 feels way better than v8, where it still falls short, and why this release feels less like a victory lap and more like Midjourney finally arriving at the version v8

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01:23:40

Claude Knows Kung Fu. Midjourney's Still in the Dojo...

Fast Hours ·

2026/04/05

In episode 65, Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn return for another round of Midjourney Fast Hours and immediately do what they do best: poke at bleeding-edge AI tools until something breaks, gets weird, or accidentally becomes useful.They kick things off with fresh Midjourney V8 impressions, including what changed after another week of testing, why resetting personalization profiles helped, where the weird magic still shows up, and why V8 still feels like it is waiting for its real arrival. They also dig

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01:33:52

Ep. 64—Midjourney V8 First Impressions + Claude Code...

Fast Hours ·

2026/03/29

Drew and Rory crawl back from travel chaos, token addiction, and mild creative delusion to answer the question everyone’s been asking: did Midjourney V8 finally land... and was it worth the wait?In this episode, they break down their real first impressions of Midjourney V8, including what feels better, what feels busted, why mood boards are suddenly acting possessed, and why the old “short and vibey” prompting style may have quietly lost its crown. They get into coherence, SV6 vs. SV7 behavior,

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01:12:58

Midjourney V8 Countdown + Kling 3.0, Seedance 2.0 &...

Fast Hours ·

2026/02/19

After a brief hiatus, the boys are back!With Midjourney v8 expected next week, Drew and Rory zoom out and ask the bigger question: does v8 even matter as much as we think?Because while everyone waits for v8, Kling 3.0 and Seedance 2.0 are raising the bar, Claude Code and Claude Cowork are quietly changing how builders operate, and Claude Agents are turning workflows into autonomous systems.Meanwhile, Higgsfield is melting down in public, Hollywood is panick-maxxing, and creators are realizing that

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01:26:26

Midjourney v8 Is Late, the Skill Gap Is Growing, and...

Fast Hours ·

2026/02/01

Episode 62 starts where every serious AI podcast should: Adam Sandler movies, Bobby Boucher lore, and a suspicious black eye.Then things spiral fast.Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn catch up after the holidays and dive headfirst into what’s actually happening across Midjourney, Nano Banana Pro, system prompts, and the growing gap between “fun” image generation and production-ready work. They unpack why Midjourney V8 still hasn’t landed, what the Style Creator and personalization updates really mean, and

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01:46:02

Ep.61—Live Visual AI AMA: You Asked. And We Went There.

Fast Hours ·

2026/01/10

Episode 61 turns the Midjourney Fast Hours mic over to the audience.Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn go fully live for an AMA that exposes where visual AI actually stands right now. Not the hype decks, but the messy, useful, (occasionally) frustrating truth.They break down what Midjourney v8 really signals, why the long-awaited edit model has become table stakes, and how Nano Banana Pro quietly changed everyone’s workflow whether they admit it or not. They debate node-based canvases like Weavy and

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01:43:47

Ep.60—Fast Hours 2025 Wrapped: The Tools, Shifts, and...

Fast Hours ·

2026/01/01

In this final episode of 2025, Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn zoom out to dissect what actually mattered this year across Midjourney, Nano Banana Pro, ChatGPT Image 1.5, Weavy, video models, workflows, and the uncomfortable truth about how fast all of this is moving.They unpack the real inflection points no one labeled at the time. Why March quietly changed everything. Why Nano Banana Pro rewired image editing expectations. Why Veo 3 reset video. Why Midjourney still feels magicalWhy workflows (not

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01:11:13

Midjourney v8 Countdown, Are "AI Artists" A Thing? +...

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2025/12/21

Drew and Rory stumble back from the holiday chaos—one fresh off vacation, the other barely resurrected from a mystery NYC illness.Between fever dreams and booger fingers, they somehow manage to tear into ChatGPT's Image 1.5 disappointment, expose why Nano Banana Pro is quietly dominating their workflows, and reveal the Weavy automation setup that's actually working (while FreePik continues its reign of mediocre terror). The duo gets brutally honest about why OpenAI feels like it's slipping, why

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01:08:17

Midjourney Edit Models + Nano Banana Pro: Eating...

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2025/12/03

Rory and Drew celebrate crawling their way to 30k subs, then immediately prove they are barely qualified to handle it by turning a Stranger Things binge into a full-blown lecture on composition, lighting, and how to reverse-engineer blockbuster shots into Midjourney and Nano Banana Pro prompts. They talk like film school dropouts who discovered prompts instead of lenses. From there, they unpack fresh Midjourney office hours: the upcoming UI/UX overhaul with continuous scrolling, better color

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01:07:23

Two Midjourney Drops in 48 Hours + Nano Banana Pro...

Fast Hours ·

2025/11/22

Drew and Rory pull up to Episode 57 running on fumes and caffeine, only to get smacked in the face by one of the wildest AI weeks of the year. Midjourney drops two new features back-to-back like it’s nothing, Google drops Nano Banana Pro into the world like a nuke, and both guys are out here pretending they’re emotionally prepared (they’re not).They clown themselves for completely misusing Style Creator on day one, break down how user profiles actually work, and speculate on whether v8 is hiding the

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00:59:05

Go Flux Yourself: Midjourney Still Runs the Realism Game

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2025/11/16

Drew and Rory start with eyeball horror, Stranger Things hype, and the idea of AI-powered contact lenses before stumbling straight into the real mind-melt: Midjourney, Grok Imagine, Mystic 3, and Flux all colliding in one episode. They roast their own prompts, trigger an accidental NSF-DoubleU moment live inside Grok, argue about “flux face,” and still somehow manage to pull out real, practical tips for people trying to make better AI images without losing their minds.Across an hour of chaos, they

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01:07:28

Nodes Are Eating the Creative World (And You’re...

Fast Hours ·

2025/11/09

Rory and Drew return from Halloween with coffee, chaos, and a nerdfest on node-based creation. They speed-run Midjourney office hours, gripe about missing “make him smile” buttons, then crack open the new wave: nodes in Krea, Freepik Spaces, and Weavy...batching, branching, and wiring prompts like a patch bay. Drew admits he’s been using v6 personalization inside v7 like a goblin. Rory shows how to spin one image into 20+ shots and auto-write video prompts, then turns pencil sketches into cinematic

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01:18:34

Midjourney’s Whole System Is Quietly Evolving + a...

Fast Hours ·

2025/11/02

It’s spooky season, and Midjourney’s acting possessed — new UI, style creator, and a personalization trick you weren’t supposed to find.Drew and Rory break down why Midjourney’s entire system is quietly evolving—from Style Creator and V6 personalization inside V7 to what V8 might unlock. They also unpack Figma’s surprise grab of Weavy, Adobe Max’s wild AI experiments, and Google’s Pomelli quietly rewriting ad generation. This episode connects the dots: how personalization, node-based canvases, and

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01:19:02

Cracking Midjourney’s Style Explorer + Freepik’s Rise...

Fast Hours ·

2025/10/26

Two tired dads with graying hair accidentally stumble into a killer AI workflow. In this Halloween-season hang, Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn trade Midjourney Office Hours intel (V8, maybe no 7.1), go deep on the Style Explorer/Style Finder with token-level searches, then build a rapid prompt-testing pipeline across Weavy + multiple image models. Somewhere between Scream and Sandstorm, they also unpack Freepik’s new “aggregator” lane and Higgsfield’s Popcorn storyboard—then end by stealing prompts (on

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00:52:45

Midjourney’s Next Chapter: V8, Style Tools, and The...

Fast Hours ·

2025/10/19

Rory and Drew try to keep up with AI like two dads jogging after a runaway stroller. They dig into Midjourney v8 rumors, the new Style Finder vs. Style Creator, and why personalization has everyone stuck in a pink-blue haze. They compare Sora 2’s shock-tightened IP rules to Veo 3.1’s practical upgrades, then sprint through Runway’s new “apps,” Reve’s under-the-radar glow-up, and a wild photo tool (Phota) that restyles real shots without wrecking the moment. It’s fun, a little chaotic, and weirdly

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01:06:27

Sora 2, Veo 3 & The AI Video Gold Rush

Fast Hours ·

2025/10/06

Midjourney Fast Hours — Episode 51: “Sora 2, Veo 3 & The AI Video Gold Rush”Drew and Rory crawl out of their creative caves after a month-long “break” (read: total burnout) and immediately get smacked in the face by Sora 2, Veo 3, and Midjourney Style Explorer updates that make everything they said last episode obsolete.They break down what’s actually working in Sora 2 (full edits, audio, dialogue, even IP?), why Veo 3 can’t seem to go fast anymore, and how keyframes are quietly becoming the

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01:13:08

Unpacking Midjourney's Style Explorer + Slipping...

Fast Hours ·

2025/09/07

The Midjourney Fast Hours crew hits episode 50…and immediately forgets to throw a party. Instead, Drew and Rory stumble into a killer trick inside the brand-new Style Explorer (yes, that hidden Smart Search → Styles move), while guest Allar Haltsonen cheerfully roasts their “we’ll plan it later” energy and shows how RAW can completely flip a style’s look. They blitz through v7.1 notes, v8 teasers, and real-world Midjourney Video settings (SD vs HD, Loop vs Motion) before going full Nano Banana:

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01:10:04

Midjourney Token Bashing, Nano Banana, and Weavy with...

Fast Hours ·

2025/08/31

Rory and Drew invite creative polymath Marco Isle to do what this show does best: break Midjourney in interesting ways. It’s a token binge from shadow play, moonlight, GOBO shadows, datamosh, pixel smear, prismatic rainbow light streaks, and androgynous beauty plus where --exp actually makes images better (and where it ruins them). They also crack open token bashing (smashing words to birth fresh visuals), show why aspect ratio is half the art, and steal moodboard fuel from Cosmos.so.Then it gets

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00:59:30

Midjourney Video Update: HD for All & Batch Size...

Fast Hours ·

2025/08/16

MJ:FH Ep. 48—Midjourney just unlocked HD video for everyone, added new batch size controls, and teased more of Style Explorer, V7.1, and V8. Here’s everything you need to know.Two bleary-eyed nerds test Midjourney’s newest toys so you don’t torch your credits. In this run-and-gun lab, Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn cover the video update (batch size 1–2, HD now available), why Moodboards finally lives in the sidebar, and what V7.1 is poking at while V8 hogs the spotlight.They preview Style Explorer,

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01:13:15

Midjourney TV MJTV + Personalized Explore Pages

Fast Hours ·

2025/08/03

Rory’s apartment is in chaos, Drew’s talking about broken toes again, and somehow they end up deep-diving Midjourney TV like it’s cable circa 1999. In this episode, the guys go full nerd on Midjourney’s video loops, end frames, and personalized Explore Pages—plus fresh Office Hour gems on Style Explorer, V8 hints, and even video audio layers that could flip workflows on their heads. If you’ve ever wanted to know how to chain video keyframes without breaking your sanity (or your credits), this is

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